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Enrollment
995
High
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHPAGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360474000217
BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
10 CHERRY AVE, BETHPAGE, NY 11714 · (516) 644-4101 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL995 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of New York public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
87 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
282 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 228 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 268 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 227 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 254 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 18 | 2% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BETHPAGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
97.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
90.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 97.0% | 90.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.0% | 90.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (92.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 995 | 28.3% | 92.0% |
| W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOL WESTBURY | 898 | 28.6% | 91.7% |
| GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 1,155 | 26.8% | 92.3% |
| DIVISION AVENUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 1,044 | 35.6% | 84.7% |
| EAST MEADOW HIGH SCHOOL EAST MEADOW | 1,549 | 30.3% | 92.2% |
| HALF HOLLOW HILLS HIGH SCHOOL WEST DIX HILLS | 1,028 | 29.2% | 93.7% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #43 of 1,135 | #9 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #40 of 1,109 ▲ 55 | #9 of 57 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #36 of 1,135 ▲ 201 | #7 of 56 ▲ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 995 | #244 of 1,216 | #39 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #595 of 1,058 | #34 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.6% | #205 of 1,070 | #15 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.3% | #1,003 of 1,167 | #24 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.6% | #268 of 339 | #17 of 23 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
995
+54 (+6%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 806
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 995 | 87.3 | 11.4:1 | 28% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 1,013 | 88.1 | 11.5:1 | 26% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 932 | 84.1 | 11.1:1 | 27% (252) |
| 2020-21 | 941 | 84 | 11.2:1 | 20% (187) |
| 2017-18 | 970 | 78 | 12.4:1 | 19% (183) |
| 2015-16 | 954 | 80 | 11.9:1 | 15% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 996 | 87 | 11.4:1 | 7% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 845 | 65 | 13.0:1 | 5% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 806 | 67 | 12.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Families in BETHPAGE, New York, are served by BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a mid-sized high school. It enrolls 995 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. That is 49% bigger than the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
BETHPAGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL along with 4 other schools, enrolling 2,957 students in total.
At BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 51% of students are White. Other students are 26% Asian, 19% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The diversity index for BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
With 87.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.4:1. The average for high schools in New York is about 11.0:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, 28% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among New York public high schools, BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school in New York with BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 64.6%. BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL scores 92.0%.
In Nassau County, the median household earns about $146,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Nassau County, 315 public schools serve about 200,775 students.
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment increased 6% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BETHPAGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 759 students
- CENTRAL BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- KRAMER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 358 students
- CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOLElementary · 354 students
Other schools in BETHPAGE
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 759 students
- PLAINEDGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 661 students
- CENTRAL BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- JOHN H WEST SCHOOLElementary · 473 students
- CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOLElementary · 354 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 759
- CHARLES CAMPAGNE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 354
- KRAMER LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 358
- PASADENA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 455
- CENTRAL BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 491
- LEE AVENUE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 995 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 11.4:1 (87 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 51% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 26% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by BETHPAGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.